Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 26th May 2020. John Ward, Alison Mildon, Don Esslemont and Stuart Birks in the 6th week of Covid-19 lockdown, describing the experience. Don had falls and was taken by ambulance for treatment twice. Distancing...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          May 26, 2020

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 28th January 2025.   Moved into BUPA retirement village from a large three bedroom house. Spent two or three years previously decluttering and downsizing in anticipation of a shift. Has disc...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 28, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 21st January 2025.   All interviewees were teachers between 1967 and 1990s. Most went from school to teachers college except VickiMarie who went to university first. Dianne went to a trial trainin...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 21, 2025

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th December 2024. Part 1 of 2.   Manager of Whatunga Tūao, Volunteer Central previously called Manawatu Volunteer Resource Centre. It is a charity which covers Tararua, Horowhenua, Manawat...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 24, 2024

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 31st December 2024. Part 2 of 2.  About 480 registered social organisations in the Manawatu and Horowhenua. They need to work more collaboratively.  Councils need to make decisions about wha...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 31, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 14th January 2025. Part 2 of 2.   Was secretary, president or treasurer of school committees. Came to Palmerston North and joined Volunteer Central which matches volunteers with organisations. Wor...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 14, 2025

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th January 2025. Part 1 of 2.    One of twin boys. Mother was very ill so cared for by Plunket in Whanganui and returned to his mother six months later. Went to West End School New Plymouth ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          January 7, 2025

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 26th November 2024. Came to Whakarongo in 1986 from Wellington. Previously lived on the outskirts of Christchurch. Had been working for Plunket Society in Johnsonville. Came with two boys from a previ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Whakarongo
Date:          November 26, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th September 2024. Part 1 of 6.   Marise was born in Palmerston North and lived oEn rural properties in Manawatu near Alison Mildon’s family Marise’s father was a farm worker not a farm owner an...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 24, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 22nd October 2024. Part 4 of 6. Sir Mason Durie and Hapai Winiata spoke during Marise’s training and made her think how she could make a difference for all the Maori people she worked with. Did curative and...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 22, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 15th October 2024. Part 3 of 6. Lived in the country and was not able to be sociable as a teenager. Was reliant on other people for transport. The only bicycle in the family was heavy with a wicker basket a...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 15, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 29th October 2024.  Part 5 of 6. Has done a lot of work in the community as did her parents and other people around her. As a 15 or 16 year old she became a Sunday School teacher at Kairanga. Joined Pl...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 29, 2024

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st October 2024. part 2 of 6. Attended Newbury school which had a roll of about 50 children. Loved reading. Enjoyed having access to books and was encouraged by her teacher. Learned to write on a cha...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          October 1, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 5th November 2024. Part 6 of 6. Talks about the development of a reserve at Pit Park in Palmerston North. There were very few recreational facilities in Roslyn which is a heavy populated area. It involved a...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 5, 2024

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th September 2024. 

 Anne Weir – first days at school were different from anything she had experienced. The school had an outdoor unheated swimming pool. Enjoyed go...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 17, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10th September 2024. 

Mike Lawrence First child born in 1965 when husbands weren’t allowed in the delivery suite. Had to wait in waiting room for eight hours. He had to work ful...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          September 10, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 27th August 2024. Part 4 of 5. Went to The Gambia by herself. Very naïve. Couldn’t understand French and had no plans. A person she met at the airport found accommodation for her. Travelled to the capital, ...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Linton
Date:          August 27, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 20th August 2024. Part 3 of 5. Went to teachers college enjoyed it but didn’t like going on section. Chose infants because she lacked the confidence with older children. Bonded for three years – probationar...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Linton
Date:          August 20, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd September 2024. Part 5 of 5. On returning from overseas was probably suffering chronic depression and lost all her confidence. Worked in library at Victoria University, Wellington. Struck up a friendshi...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Linton
Date:          September 3, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 13th August 2024.    Part 2 of 5. Was a girl guide until high school. Fortunate to have Cecily Snoxell as captain.  Went to Freyberg High School. Obtained drivers license and drove to sc...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Linton
Date:          August 13, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 6th August 2024.   Part 1 of 5. Born in Kairanga the youngest of three. Was fearful of the Korean war in 1950s. Father said if it came to New Zealand they would head for the hills. Two sets of gra...

Creator:      Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place:          Linton
Date:          August 6, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th July 2024. Part 1 of 3. Taught social studies, geography and history at Awatapu College. Was also a teacher librarian. Discovered boxes of school archives which included sports results, photos, newslet...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 16, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th July 2024. Part 3 of 3.  Has written a book Manawatu Striders, Runners and Walkers : The First Four Decades available from Palmerston North City Library. Had finished interviews for the b...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 30, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th July 2024. Men’s Sheds started in Australia funded by Australian government Known as Menzshed, started in Kapiti (Waikanae) in 2010 as a community organisation Men doing something with their hands. Frie...

Creator:      Iola Haggarty
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          July 9, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd July 2024. Part 2 of 3. Manawatu Striders is a running and walking group based in Palmerston North established in 1983. Sue has been a member since 2006. She has written a book Manawatu Striders, R...

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd December 2024. Part 1 of 2.   Medical museum is no longer at Palmerston North Public Hospital because the building had to make way for a new mental health block. A lot of memorabilia is in sto...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 3, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th November 2024. Part 1 of 2. Ian went to Anglican church until age of 19 when friends started a young adults group at Methodist Church. They met in people’s homes. Five or six churches joined to become ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 12, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th November 2024. Part 2 of 2. The Palmerston North Wesley Broadway has had a number of lay preachers but other churches in the region haven’t had so many. About 2012 they became one parish, the Manawatu ...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          November 19, 2024

 Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th December 2024.   Lived in Taumarunui on the upper reaches of the Whanganui River. There is a riverboat museum at Whanganui. Three types of boat used on the Whanganui River – paddle, pro...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 17, 2024

Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10th December 2024. Part 2 of 2.   The Palmerston North medical museum is administered by a charitable trust and run by volunteers, chaired by Dr John Bourke. An independent organisation which has...

Creator:      Stuart Birks
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          December 10, 2024